Tanya Habjouqa

Tanya Habjouqa (; born 1975) is a Jordanian American photographer based in East Jerusalem. Her work documents daily life across the Middle East.

Early life and education Tanya Habjouqa was born in Amman, Jordan in 1975. Her mother was American, and her father was from the minority Circassian ethnic group in Jordan. When she was 4 years old, her parents divorced, and her mother brought Habjouqa and her brother to live in Fort Worth, Texas, where she grew up.

Habjouqa studied journalism and then anthropology at the University of North Texas. Early in her career, while still a student, she worked to photograph the lives of migrants in Texas.

With her photography, Habjouqa works to document the daily struggles of those living under oppression across the Middle East. She has also taught photography at Al-Quds Bard College in East Jerusalem. It was named by Smithsonian as one of the year's best photo books.

In 2016, her work was featured in the National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibition "She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World." Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Institut du Monde Arabe, and the Carnegie Museum of Art, among other institutions.